Privacy Workshop Series
Want to learn more about privacy? Contact us!
Alexandria Chisholm
(aec67@psu.edu or 610-396-6242)
Sarah Hartman-Caverly
(smh767@psu.edu or 610-396-6243)
Follow us @Digital_Shred
Welcome to the Digital Shred Workshop!
In this workshop we will:
- Reflect on your digital privacy priorities
- Apply a growth mindset to critically examine your digital footprint
- Develop a Personal Data Integrity Plan
Image courtesy of Unsplash
This workshop is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Fact or Fiction
Open the Fact or Fiction? link below & enter the game code on the screen.
- Fact or Fiction?Privacy edition!
Damage Assessment Activity
Damage Assessment
Adapted from Intelligence Community Directive 732 (ICD 732)
Use the Damage Assessment worksheet to:
- Evaluate actual or potential damage resulting from infiltration or exfiltration
- Identify systemic vulnerabilities
- Develop corrective action plan
Personal Data Integrity Plan
Using your Ideal Portfolio & Damage Assessment, begin reflecting on your individual digital accounts, apps, & smart products which pose a privacy threat.
Use the Personal Data Integrity Plan worksheet & links below to assess risk levels & begin planning a corrective action plan.
Getting Started
- HaveIBeenPwnedFind out if any of your accounts have been compromised in a data breach.
- Pwned PasswordsSearch for real world passwords that have previously been exposed in data breaches.
- Create a Google Search AlertSet up a search alert on your name & email to monitor 1) potential fraudulent activity and 2) what potential employers, significant others, family members, etc. can find about you online.
- Firefox MonitorStay safe with privacy tools from the makers of Firefox that protect you from hackers and companies that publish and sell your personal information. We’ll alert you of any known data breaches, find and remove your exposed info and continually watch for new exposures.
- Cover Your TracksTest your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting - from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- BlacklightEnter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data.
How to locate & delete accounts
- Justdelete.meDirectory of links to expedite the deletion of zombie accounts from various web services.
- How to Find Old Online AccountsTips on how to locate dormant, zombie accounts that pose a risk to your privacy & data security.
- How to Delete Online Accounts You No Longer NeedSteps to delete specific online accounts.
- How To Clear Out Your Zombie Apps and Online AccountsLearn how to locate & delete zombie accounts across the web.
Smartphones
Web Browsers
Social
- Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse [revenge porn / sextortion]This service helps you remove sexually explicit photos created (or generated) when you are an adult (18+).
- Take It DownThis service is one step you can take to help remove online nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit photos and videos taken before you were 18.
Productivity & Organization
- Glaze ProjectGlaze is a tool to help artists to prevent their artistic styles from being learned and mimicked by new AI-art models such as MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and their variants.
Health & Wearables
Smart Home // Smart Devices
Bonus Topics!
